Disclaimer: I liked Generation War, for what it was, a piece of entertainment; and fairly decent combat scenes.

Now, with that out of the way, I do agree there needed to be a huge suspension of disbelief. My eyebrows merged with my hairline when the 'Token Jewish Friend' made his first appearance. This was unheard of; the Series begins prior to Barbarossa so you wouldn't risk much more than negative attention from the regime at that time, but association or hiding of Jewish persons later on would be a death sentence. It wasn't just farfetched it was insulting; It really did seem like it was an alleviation of German guilt.

Others have taken issue with this as well. Poland did not take well to the depiction of the RKA. There has been arguments that there was heavy anti-semitism before and after WWII in Poland, but the series depicts them as so collectively anti semitic that it accomplishes nothing more but to say "See look, we weren't the only ones!" Its intellectually dishonest, and the Polish Newspaper "The Catholic Weekly" wrote a good review (Use a good translator there) that echoes these sentiments and has some nuggets of info on the actual RK.

If I could inject my opinion here; I don't think the producers of Generation War meant to deliberately alleviate German guilt, however, based on how it was recieved abroad and the general touchiness of the subject, it certainly appeared that way. As a piece of entertainment, of course you need to be able to sympathize, empathize and relate to the main characters - so they become essentially decent people. The 5 main characters are meant to represent ''the typical Germans'' however, so its one big foggy looking-glass.